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Think of the incredible things that could have been done in the 1980s with this kind of power! But it's being eaten by these stupid GUI systems and all the kewl 'multimedia' thingamajigs tacked onto our WinDOS systems.
I can understand your frustration coming from the perspective of a programmer as you do. But don't forget it's all
"thingamajigs" that give us a market for all the lines of code to begin with.
As much as some computer nuts (an I count myself in this group, although I am by no means a programmer) hate to admit it, if it weren't for Windows, or something else like it, computers would have never had the mainstream appeal that they do. Without the GUI interface your typical non-techie, the vast majority or the population, would not see the need for having a computer to begin with. They certainly wouldn't plunk down hard earned cash for a game program that's just a series of columns of numbers and text Messages.
Not to mention the fact that you would never have the monster processors and bottomless memory storage that we have today. It's been the added complexity in the programming that has produced the need for the advancments in processing power and memory size and speed.
Geo
[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 02 August 2001).]